Expressway revenue exceeds Rs. 70 mn during past 48-hours

17 April 2023 01:45 pm Views - {{hitsCtrl.values.hits}} 9 Bookmark

CHATURANGA PRADEEP SAMARAWICKRAMA Follow

A A A

More than Rs. 70 million in revenue was collected from the expressways during the past 48 hours, Road Development Authority (RDA) Project Director L.V. Sardha Weerakoon said.

He said a total of Rs. 70,558,100 was collected from the vehicles that used all the expressways on April 15 and 16.

Accordingly, Rs. 34,974,100 in revenue was collected from 126,760 vehicles that used the expressways on April 15 and Rs. 35,584,000 from 129,465 vehicles that used the expressways on April 16.

No fatal accidents were reported on the expressways on both days. However, two minor injuries were reported on April 15 and 20 incidents such as causing damages to vehicles and to expressway property.

Meanwhile, only one minor incident of injury to a person was reported on April 16, along with 24 incidents relating to vehicle and expressway property damages. (Chaturanga Pradeep Samarawickrama)

Comments - 9

Dana Monday, 17 April 2023 02:25 PM

Revenue should be evaluated against the project cost and interest payments. Revenue figure by itself is meaningless.

0 0

Tissa Fernando Monday, 17 April 2023 06:13 PM

JVP leader said that we do not need the express ways. Hope he is not using these roads. I am sure if he comes to power he will convert these express ways back to original state .

0 0

Quolp Monday, 17 April 2023 07:42 PM

Those who should take note of the progress that His Excellency Mahinda Rajapaksas made on Sri Lanka with the help of China, should not blame Rajapaksas who saved our country from 30years of LTTE TERRORISM as well. Very unfortunately, an artifical economic crisis really induced by the US PLOT for their personal interest on Sri Lanka.

0 0

Gunadasa Tuesday, 18 April 2023 12:16 PM

Artificial economic crisis induced by US - LOL. Do you believe US forced Sri Lanka to cut down the income tax, maintain exchange rate at unrealistic Rs 202 to a dollar, selling petroleum products at below cost and stop using chemical fertilizer in the country?

0 0

Cheers Tuesday, 18 April 2023 01:25 AM

If not for Mahinda Rajapakse this would have not been a reality. Where is ambul thiyal hope he is not using this at all

0 0

Rishan Tuesday, 18 April 2023 06:23 AM

Better give some incentives to those who collects the toll from road users... Also it is better to reduce the speed during festive season to 80km/h. so that we can minimise road accidents ...

0 0

Lionel Perera Tuesday, 18 April 2023 06:44 AM

There are no street lights in many areas of the highway. This is one of the reasons for frequent accidents. Now atleast authorities should fix street lights.

0 0

From London Tuesday, 18 April 2023 12:35 PM

The expressway looks like what we have in Britain. Economic crisis aside, Sri Lanka has made real progress under Rajapaksas with Chinese loan and technology. We can beat the enemies who created the economic crisis and come out as victors.

0 0

Tissa Fernando Wednesday, 19 April 2023 06:25 AM

@From London , it is true that there were a lot of construction activities going on during Rajapaksha regime but the problem was that a big part of the expenditure was going into their pockets. On a another note, during Yahapalana government with JVP MPs , they borrowed USD 16 Billion but there was no single visible development and no one knows what happened this money borrowed.

0 0

Add comment
Comments will be edited (grammar, spelling and slang) and authorized at the discretion of Daily Mirror online. The website also has the right not to publish selected comments.